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Bill	"Tanja's Law"; provide measure of equivalency in punishment of crimes committed against police dogs in performance of their official duties	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to crimes and offenses, so as to provide a measure of equivalency in the punishment of crimes committed against police dogs in the performance of their official duties as to that of peace officers; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 72	Georgia SB 72 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Brandon Beach Butch Miller Donzella James Fran Millar Gloria Butler Greg Kirk Harold Jones II Horacena Tate Hunter Hill Jack Hill Jeff Mullis John Albers John Wilkinson P. K. Martin IV Ross Tolleson Tyler Harper Valencia Seay William Jackson	5	16	1	2015-01-29	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/9972e691-ccd0-4d8b-b312-c8697fe89317	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f9aa25fba50b1840764703853f07b1e9ac04a70f6c2f5d59f4c0bbffd42b3395	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 72 (2015_16) — "Tanja's Law"; provide measure of equivalency in punishment of crimes committed against police dogs in performance of their official duties

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to crimes and offenses, so as to provide a measure of equivalency in the punishment of crimes committed against police dogs in the performance of their official duties as to that of peace officers; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. As introduced LC 41 0326 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 41 0406S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 6598S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 72/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 46–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Donzella James — primary (person)
• Fran Millar — primary (person)
• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• Horacena Tate — primary (person)
• Hunter Hill — primary (person)
• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
• Ross Tolleson — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• Valencia Seay — primary (person)
• William Jackson — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2015-01-29 Senate Hopper
• 2015-02-02 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-02-12 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-17 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-02-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-02-20 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-02-23 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-24 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-24 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-08 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-01 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-01 Act 40 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9972e691-ccd0-4d8b-b312-c8697fe89317. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).